How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Annie Hall.
Quote #1
ALVY: I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member. That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women.
Alvy lays his cards on the table almost immediately. He and relationships are like oil and water. Like baking soda and vinegar. Like foil and a microwave oven.
Quote #2
ALVY: Talk to him! You speak shellfish.
The lobsters getting loose in the kitchen is one of the highest highs of Alvy and Annie's relationship. Annie hangs the photos she took of Alvy and the lobster in her apartment, and it's revisited in the film's final montage, as Alvy thinks back over their occasionally crustacean-filled romance.
Quote #3
ALVY: Hey, listen. Listen, give me a kiss.
ANNIE: Really?
ALVY: Yeah, why not, because we're just gonna go home later, right, and then there's gonna be all that tension, you know, we've never kissed before and I'll never know when to make the right move or anything. So we'll kiss now, we'll get it over with, and then we'll go eat, okay? We'll digest our food better.
Smooth, Alvy. Really smooth. Here, Alvy plays his anxieties to his advantage.